"'Goose' Goslin, Left Fielder of the Senators"
1924
A gelatin silver photograph that freezes a baseball player’s full swing, aiming to celebrate athleticism and the public theater of sport.
What strikes you is the taut diagonal of the batter’s body and bat set against empty bleachers, with sharp sunlight and subtle streaks of shadow lending the instant a cinematic sense of motion and focus.
Made for news distribution in the 1920s, this image shows how photojournalism turned athletes into visual icons and helped establish sports photography as a staple of mass media.
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
9 5/16 × 6 1/4" (23.7 × 15.9 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
The New York Times Collection
Accession
2011.2001
Palette
Exhibitions
